Groningen: The World’s Cycling City
It’s no secret that just about anywhere you go in the Netherlands is an incredible place to bicycle. And in Groningen, a northern city with a population of 190,000 and a bike mode share of 50 percent,...
View ArticleHappy New Year from Pune: Traffic – Just like all of the rest of us
This New Year’s editorial contributed by Sujit Patwardhan focuses on his home city of Pune, India’s eighth largest city with five million people densely packed into a land area of about 700 sq. km. But...
View ArticleEleven Steps Toward a Brighter Future
Way to Go! 11 Reasons Why Trains, Buses, Bikes and Walking Move Us Toward a Brighter Future – Guest editorial, by Jay Walljasper According to the pundits and prophets who dominate the media, the future...
View ArticleTen Points of Light
[This posting announces a new component of World Streets Battles of Ideas, that was launched yesterday.] If you wanted to know about the state of play of the sustainable transport revolution in a given...
View ArticleConvergence: Understanding the New Mobility Paradigm – European Citizens...
The purpose of this first exploratory workshop hosted by the European Citizens Mobility Forum (ECMF) is to solicit peer reviews, critical commentary and action recommendations on the part of the...
View ArticleInvitation to “Brussels”: European Citizens Mobility Forum on a New Mobility...
On the assumption that your plans may not have you in Brussels on Monday in time to join the meeting, but that you are nonetheless interested to follow the event and what might come out of it, this is...
View ArticleCitizens Mobility Forum – Introduction
The Citizen: the missing link in the move to sustainable transport and sustainable cities * Open collaborative program just getting underway. Page under construction/ as of 31 March 2015 World Streets...
View ArticleSolving traffic problems by talking about them in the Netherlands
It would be an awful thing indeed if around the world each of us, each person, each group, each city, each country had to learn only our own lessons in isolation, without being able to open our eyes...
View ArticleSpring Break: Happy City Weekend on World Streets – Part 1
Author Charles Montgomery Talks “Happy City” with Mark Gorton, Philanthorpist and public servant Mark Gorton interviews award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery about his new book “Happy City:...
View ArticleSpring Break: Happy City Weekend on World Streets – Part 2
Charles Montgomery digs into his book “Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design” in this 19 minute TEDx talk, and explains to us how happiness can be not only a wish or dream, but can be...
View ArticleMake Way for Buses – Delhi India
Campaign Meeting, Delhi India, Saturday, April 25 World Streets strongly supports this important citizen initiative and congratulates the organizers. * Details at...
View ArticleWhy I am Reasonably Optimistic about the Sustainability Transition for 2015-2020
Shortlist of Transformative Realities and Trends One of the great recompenses of having watched the sustainable transportation and related technology developments evolve over the course of several...
View ArticleExtra-urban Mobility Revolution Coming to your Doorstep
If I live outside of a city — say, in a classic spread suburb, rural area, commuter town or other hard to serve low density area — and if I happen not own a car, or on days when my car is not...
View ArticleEncyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home
Pope Francis’s just-promulgated encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home”, is without a doubt the most important single document to be published, initiative to be taken, since the phrase...
View ArticleThe Encyclical Dialogue: What happens next on World Streets?
World Streets accepts this wise invitation of open discussion of these critical matters with grateful thanks to the Pope and the Vatican, and a genuine desire to participate usefully. Pope Francis has...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Critiquing the Penang Transport Master Plan
The following strategic commentary appeared in the form of a long letter responding to an invitation by the chief transport planner of Penang with the State Government Office to comment on a strategic...
View ArticleA leader is best when . . .
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say . . . “We did it ourselves”. – Lao Tze
View ArticleInvisibilities: How to look at (for) something that is purported to be invisible
In the city, as in life, as we make our way around it we normally register only what we set out to look for. The anomalies, the absences, the troubling, somehow escape our attention. Consciously or...
View ArticleSustainable Penang‘s Online 24/7 Open Town Hall Meeting
First Archive Edition – 18 January 2016 Introduction On 14 Dec. 2015: Mr. Lim Thean Heng, Chief Engineer, creates a WhatsApp group “Sustainable Penang”. It can be accessed online via...
View ArticleOn the Sustainable Penang 24/7 Citizen Forum and the divergence of ideas
Dear Friends and members of this open public forum, We are now getting into the true nitty-gritty fundamentals here and I would not like to leave this behind us too quickly. The disagreements are...
View ArticleSustainable Penang’s Online 24/7 Open Town Hall Meeting
Introduction to Vol II. Archive Edition – 1 February 2016 The exchanges start to heat up, some differences emerge, while at the same time all of us remain reasonably civil and respectful of the...
View ArticleOther useful Sustainable Penang references
MISSION: Sustainable Penang: Toward a New Mobility Agenda homepage – https://sustainablepenang.wordpress.com/the-mission/ PUBLIC ENQUIRY/Brainstorming report of Nov. 2013 – https://goo.gl/0BgurW...
View ArticleSustainable Penang/New Mobility Agenda Publications
For those of you who do not know it, we do have a “publication arm” that works rather effectively, a collaborative blog which we set up in 2013 during my first visit to Penang, under the title...
View ArticleMore on #BetterPenang
#BetterPenang CAT (Citizen Action Technology) is a community owned platform allows users to post complaints and ideas to make Penang a better place for everyone. This app is based on the idea that a...
View ArticleBrainstorming the Penang Transport Master Plan(s)
Draft introduction: Welcome to a collaborative thinking exercise inviting any and all who may have some questions about the focus, the vision and in the end the quality of future mobility services as...
View ArticleNGOs: Don’t rush to endorse Penang transport master plan
Fifteen local NGOs have cautioned Penangites not to rush to endorse the state’s mega-billion transport master plan (PTMP), saying more consultation and transparency are needed in the massive deal. The...
View ArticleUSEFUL SUSTAINABLE PENANG/NEW MOBILITY REFERENCES
This set of references in support of the sustainable Penang project, and in particular the component involving civil society participation in determining the future of Penang’s transport/mobility...
View ArticleWorld Streets supports Sustainable Penang Transport Initiative
Last Minute News from Penang – 13 July 2016. 10:00 local time: 1. Penang Forum today launched : Better, Cheaper, Faster Penang Transport Master Plan 2. Start with the sharp (hilarious) 2 minute...
View Article* BETTER * CHEAPER * FASTER Penang Transport Master Plan . Media release of...
George Town. 13 July 2016 Press Conference by Penang Forum to launch the . . . Better Cheaper Faster Penang Transport Master Plan’ * Report & website (www.bettercheaperfaster.my) 1. The Penang...
View ArticleOP-ED: WHOSE OPINION MATTERS IN PENANG?
Lessons from a Stakeholder Engagement Process for Penang, Malaysia For background and details see...
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